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...amendments* applied to both rubber and duplicate bridge. There were two scoring changes: a 50-point bonus for making any doubled or redoubled contract, whether vulnerable or not; a 50-point bonus for having a part score in an unfinished game of an unfinished rubber. Two rules were changed. Henceforth, when the wrong opponent leads against him, a declarer has a choice of calling or forbidding the lead of any suit he wishes. For a revoke, the penalty is still two tricks, but hereafter there is no additional penalty when the same player revokes a second time in the same...
...market: retailers (for whom wholesalers used to give lavish parties) this time frantically reached for the dinner checks. But at week's end many a buyer went home with nothing but entertainment to put on his expense account. Cracked one furniture manufacturer: "We're paying a bonus to the salesman who sells the least...
Soldiers & sailors would get special priorities, could do their shopping from the trenches through personnel officers and chaplains. As an added attraction, all buyers would get a 10% bonus (in merchandise) when the certificates were turned...
Last week Patiño's Indians went on strike, and the tin empire and Bolivia trembled. A week after the deadline for re-enactment of an enlightened labor code, workers at the Catavi mines walked out, demanding a 100% wage increase, a Christmas bonus, which they claimed was theirs by law, and the end of the company stores (virtually their only source of food and clothing) which kept them constantly in debt...
...Plus Bonus. The investigating Congressmen got even madder about Maritime Commission's financial arrangements. For building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting...